My wife applied for her first British Passport. She received the new passport two weeks ago, but hasn’t received the supporting docs (naturalisation certificate and other passport).
My wife applied for a passport a few weeks ago. As per the process, they asked for someone to confirm her identity, and he did so a couple of weeks ago. We did that and they confirmed it was done, and asked for docs to be sent, which they then confirmed they received. Now, a few weeks later we recei...
Refer to this government web page: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/right-to-work-checklist/employers-right-to-work-checklist-accessible-version Quote: "Step 1 for physical check You must obtain original documents from either List A or List B of acceptable documents for a manual righ...
Is a naturalisation certificate enough to prove right to work in U.K.? My wife’s employers are asking for additional documentation. She doesn’t have a passport yet and doesn’t have a BRP anymore of course.
I just spoke to the passport office on the same the topic and the person I spoke to said the applicant can ask for their existing passport to be returned early (ie not have to wait until the U.K. passport application is processed). He also said the applicant can use their naturalisation certificate ...
My wife is applying for her first British passport. She has two existing passports, one issued by country A, and one issued by country B. The spelling of her surname is slightly different on passport A with one letter being different (due to different transliteration conventions from Cyrillic). Her...
Hi, Another frustrated customer of HMPO here, just wanted to share our story. My wife got her first British passport 10 years ago. She applied for a renewal in March, and still has no passport 5 months on. She is also a national of Belarus, and her name in her Belarusian passport is spelt different...
My wife received a letter saying her citizenship has been approved. We were surprised at the spelling used for the place of birth on the letter. It uses the Belarusian spelling of the place instead of the Russian one. (Note that Russian is an official language of Belarus and her passport includes bo...
My wife is applying for her first British passport. She has two existing passports, one issued by country A, and one issued by country B. The spelling of her surname is slightly different on passport A with one letter being different (due to different transliteration conventions from Cyrillic). Her ...
My wife is applying for naturalisation. She has travelled out of the country several times for short trips over the last three years (total time well below the 90 and 270 day limits). I understand that normally she is able to prove that she has been in the UK enough with her passports. However, on s...
I am looking to understand what the restrictions on travel during the naturalisation process are (for my wife who is in the process of applying). The first step is applying for naturalisation. This takes up to 6 months as far as I understand. After that, she needs to go to a citizenship ceremony. Wi...
In the end the employer agreed to offer a standard full-time contract.
The standard terms and conditions of the contract that apply to all employees say that they can terminate the contract if the employee’s immigration status changes ...
Thank you for your response. Their position is that they would be at risk of getting fined if they offered a full time contract. A full time contract would be completely standard for this time of job. Do you know what the standard practice is at large organisations? Presumably they would just give t...
My partner is applying for a job with a large UK company. She submitted her ILR application 3 months ago as the spouse of a UK citizen, and hadn’t heard back since (it could be another three months...). Because of this, her prospective employer doesn’t want to issue her with a full time contract. In...
Hi My wife has an appointment for ILR (as a spouse of British citizen) tomorrow, and it is not clear to me which docs she needs to bring. They said that passports and the doc I signed saying she is my spouse are mandatory, but does she also need to bring printouts of other docs, like financial infor...
My wife has applied for ILR and and made the biometric appointment for early January. They have asked us to upload the docs before the appointment. Should we upload the docs as soon as possible to accelerate the process or is no one going to look at them before the appointment anyway, so we may as w...
The relevant text in the legislation seems to be this: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2019.188.01.0025.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2019:188:TOC “b) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2. Provided that the applicant fulfils the entry conditions set out in point (a) a...
The European Comission has published a press release on this subject. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_20_149 It says “Multiple-entry visas with long validity (from 1 to 5 years) are now easier to obtain, saving frequent travellers time and money, as they will have to appl...
Thank you. I understand that they need to come from different companies/institutions. How many different institutions are needed? At the moment we have (for my spouse) council tax, 2 banks, HMRC and a credit card issuer (and a similar number of institutions for me). Is that enough, or do I need to g...
Hi Is there a precise list of documents needed for the ILR application for spouses somewhere? I tried looking at the government website but didn't find it. In particular, how many bank/utility statements are needed with both our names on it? We will need to apply in 2 years but I don't want to get t...
We would like to apply for a multiple entry short stay visa for my wife that will be valid for several years (the last visa was valid for 2 years so I would guess we will get at least that). What should we put in the " Intended date of departure from the Schengen area "? The instructions o...
